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Use when targeting Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) or deciding whether an applied econometrics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Review of Economics and Statistics (review-of-economics-and-statistics)

## Journal positioning

REStat (Harvard/MIT, MIT Press) is a leading outlet for applied econometrics and empirical economics, with a long tradition in careful identification and measurement. It publishes sharply executed empirical papers across fields — often shorter and more focused than top-5 omnibus papers — where a clean design, careful measurement, or a useful applied-econometric contribution carries the work. The contribution is credible empirical evidence done well; the bar is high on identification and execution rather than on discipline-wide general interest.

This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the REStat / MIT Press site and the editorial submission system.

## When to trigger

- The author names REStat as the target, or has a focused empirical paper that is excellent but narrower than a top-5 swing.
- A paper's strength is careful identification or measurement rather than a discipline-wide general-interest hook.
- A solid applied-econometrics or empirical paper needs a venue that rewards clean execution and a sharp, contained contribution.
- The author needs REStat's desk-reject risks and a credible top-5 / applied-field alternative list.
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